Jose Tomas Ovalle

Jose Tomas Ovalle y Bezanilla (21 December 1787-21 March 1831) was President of Chile from 24 December 1829 to 18 February 1830 (succeeding Francisco Ramon Vicuna and preceding Francisco Ruiz-Tagle) and from 1 April 1830 to 8 March 1831 (succeeding Ruiz-Tagle and preceding Fernando Errazuriz Aldunate). He was a member of the conservative Pelucones.

Biography
Jose Tomas Ovalle y Bezanilla was born in Santiago, Chile on 21 December 1787, and he became a lawyer in 1809. He served as a deputy for Santiago in 1823 and from 1824 to 1825, and, in 1829, during the Chilean Civil War of 1829, Ovalle was appointed the head of a conservative government junta in the aftermath of the liberal president Francisco Ramon Vicuna's deposition. The junta remained in power until 1830, when Francisco Ruiz-Tagle was appointed President, but Ovalle returned to serve as President from April 1830 to March 1831 after Ruiz-Tagle resigned. Ovalle fell ill with tuberculosis and died on 21 March 1831, just a few weeks after resigning.